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Rethink Ventures
Venture capital · Germany · Europe
Rethink Ventures is a venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs building European logistics, supply chain, and mobility tech companies. It also maintains a network of industry corporate partners connecting corporates with startups.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics
In its own wordsmobilitylogisticssupply chaintransportationelectric vehiclesai
Your fit with Rethink Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsRethink Ventures lists 25 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 14 funding rounds, 6 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 71% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (23%), Mobility & Logistics (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (15%). 47% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside 4impact capital, F-LOG Ventures and Futury Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Rethink Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 7% |
| Seed | 71% |
| Series A | 21% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 6 | 3 |
| '26 | 8 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 60th | 25 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 78% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 99th | 48% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 29th | 23% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 93th | 9 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 23% | 7% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 17% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 6% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 4impact capital | 2 |
| F-LOG Ventures | 2 |
| Futury Capital | 2 |
| 2100 Ventures | 1 |
| AFI Ventures | 1 |
| Acequia Capital | 1 |
| Assembly Ventures | 1 |
| Bayern Kapital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2496%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Rethink Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Rethink Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Rethink Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Rethink Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
25 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CargoMotion provides an AI-powered salesforce for road freight companies to automate and streamline their sales and customer service processes. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cota Robotics helps retail chains automate their stores with robots that handle repetitive tasks | Robotics & HardwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Deftpower provides a white-label EV charging platform for companies to offer smart charging services to drivers and fleets. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Delta Charge plans, finances, builds, and operates battery storage and charging systems for fleets and industrial sites to optimize energy costs | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Driveblocks is a software and AI specialist for autonomy and perception systems, delivering production-ready technology to agriculture, construction, and defense customers. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Eccasion sells used electric cars directly to customers through an online auction, without the involvement of a dealer. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMobility & Logistics | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides an API-first electric vehicle charging platform for enterprises | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides remote automation solutions for forklifts and material handling | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Entroview develops battery diagnostic solutions for electric vehicles | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| FreightSuite provides a freight forwarding operating system that automates manual processes for freight forwarders | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| FRYTE Mobility operates a platform that matches fleets with charging infrastructure | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides automated compliance solutions for digital platforms and financial services. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Good2Know transforms fragmented vehicle data into a single verified lifecycle view for automotive commerce stakeholders | FintechMobility & Logistics | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Hyperdrives provides electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| InsureVision provides vision-based risk intelligence for commercial auto insurance using video from fleets | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Mar 2026Series A | Page + round | ||
| Nautica Technologies develops robotic systems for maintaining and protecting ocean infrastructure | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a mobility budget platform for employee mobility | Mobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Rail-Flow provides digital solutions for rail and intermodal logistics, including transport management and software marketplace | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Dec 2025Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- rethinkventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 3 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 25
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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